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Far-off Food Puts Vast Penguin Colony Under Threat Growing distance between nesting and feeding sites reduces chances of breeding successfully, say researchers	Bread and Droppings: Pest Control Group Warns of Rat Contamination Experts warn that our daily bread could contain some unwanted extras - rat hairs, urine and even droppings
Japanese Study Finds Worrying Loss of Blubber in Whales Scientists fear that global warming could be making it more difficult for minkes to reproduce	Salmon Fishers Demand a Seal Cull Irish anglers, angered by a drop in fish numbers, want an end to the protected status of an old foe
Elephants Have a Head for Figures The animals can add small numbers of apples in order to get their trunks on a bigger food prize	Baby Buffalo's Escape: the Movie Amateur clip that became a YouTube sensation is made into a documentary by US wildlife channel
Rainforest Seeds Revive Lost Paradise Endangered wildlife returns to tropical wasteland as conservationists work a natural 'miracle'	Surge in Fatal Shark Attacks Blamed on Global Warming Increase in human hours in sea water also responsible for shark attacks, researchers say
US Authority Failing to List Endangered Species Bald eagles, wolves, snails, butterflies and many other species native to the US have long been at risk	Our Soft Spot for the Serial Killer of the Arctic The news that Vilma, a polar bear at Nuremburg Zoo, appears to have eaten her newborn cubs will no doubt confuse our...
For Spain and for Sherry: Bulls Mark 50 Years of Roadside Ads Jet black, 14 meters high and weighing 4,000kg, the iron silhouettes of Spain's most famous animal that loom large over the...	One in Four Mammals Under Threat Habitat loss means thousands of endangered species will survive only in zoos, new report says.
Bear Dies in Pyrenees Car Crash Franska, a Slovenian bear introduced into the French Pyrenees last year in a conservation scheme that infuriated local...	Ecologists Hit Out at Ecuador for Legalising Shark Fin Sales Hundreds of sharks have been slaughtered daily off the coast of Ecuador since a ban on the sale of fins was lifted last week...
Florida's Rangers Battle Invasion of the Giant Pythons The Everglades stretch for hundreds of swampy miles across south Florida, home to hordes of snakes, alligators and assorted...	Found: the Giant Lion-eating Chimps of the Magic Forest Deep in the Congolese jungle is a band of apes that, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish and even howl at the...
Reprieve for Hemingway's Six-toed Cats Animals living at writer's former home avoid eviction after a legal battle.	Lonesome George Determined to Stay a Bachelor Lonesome George, the last known survivor of a species of giant Galapagos tortoise and one of the world's most famous...
Animal Cruelty Charge Dogs Romney Campaign Animal lovers hit the roof after it was revealed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney strapped his Irish...	Romney 'terrified' Family Dog Animal lovers hit the roof after it was revealed that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney strapped his Irish...
Sliced, Diced or Sun Dried - Japan's Whalers Serve Up a Bloody Harvest Villagers rail at restrictions, but stockpiles grow as younger generation loses taste for controversial catch.	Bears Starve As Poachers Pillage Russia's Wealth of Salmon Remote Kamchatka faces ecological meltdown as fish stocks are obliterated.
China to Lift Ban on Sale of Tiger Bones Tiger bones will go back on sale because market forces are too strong too resist, a senior China conservation official was...	Hikers in Bavaria Get to Follow His Trail After Bear Gets the Bullet In life, he bounded around the Alps pursued by all manner of hunters, apparently oblivious to the headlines he was making...
Sudan's Breathtaking Migration Scientists find vast herds of antelope and gazelle in what could be one of the greatest natural events on Earth.	Call for Wildlife Reserve to Cover 30% of Oceans Scientists have called for almost a third of the world's oceans to be turned into protected areas for marine wildlife - to...
Captive-bred Chinese Panda Dies in the Wild The only captive-bred giant panda to be released into the wild has fallen to its death, it emerged today after a...	World's Great Apes Face Disaster, Says Leakey Hunting, disease, logging and demand for biofuels cited among prime threats.
Japan's Whale Cull Offer Rejected Japan has been accused of 'needless provocation' after it offered to spare endangered humpback whales in return for...	Dog Adopts Tiger Triplets A Chinese dog has become the surrogate mother of tiger triplets born at a zoo in the country's eastern Shandong province.
Rare Borneo Rhino Caught on Film for the First Time One of the world's rarest species, the Borneo rhino, has been caught on video for the for the first time in a project that...	Famed Polar Bear Cub Gets Death Threat Security guards were called in to protect the prized baby polar bear, Knut, yesterday, after Berlin zoo received a threat...
Canadian Seal Hunters Trapped Canadian coastguards were last night battling to rescue hundreds of seal hunters trapped in thick ice off the country's...	Amur Tiger Back From Brink After a century in which its numbers have dwindled to the point of extinction, the Amur tiger, the largest cat in the world...
Bred for the Freezer: How Zoo Rears Tigers Like Battery Hens Carcasses kept in storage as Beijing looks to lift ban on sale of exotic animal parts.	Antarctica to Costa Rica: Mapping the Humpback Whale's Amazing Journey Researchers log mammal's 5,000-mile mission in feeding and breeding cycle.
Forest Elephants Threatened By Poachers Africa's forest elephants are being severely threatened by ivory poaching, according to a new survey of central African...	Court to Rule If Chimp Has Human Rights Campaigners in Austria have taken to court the case of Hiasl, a 26-year-old chimpanzee. If he is granted human status - and...
Orang Utans Face Extinction By 2012 The palm oil trade is wiping out one of man's closest relatives, as plantation owners pay a $10 bounty for every ape...	Rejected at Birth, Knut Becomes Berlin Zoo's Bear Essential Schoolchildren and world media flock to see celebrity who has his own webcam and podcast.
Rare Borneo Leopard Identified As New Species A rare and reclusive leopard that hunts among the dense island forests of Borneo and Sumatra in south-east Asia has been...	Scientists Grouse at Eco-unfriendly Ski Resorts Ski resorts have a profound impact on wildlife, according to a study of a declining bird species in the Alps.
Rare Lions Killed in Indian Game Reserve By Suspected Poachers. Poachers trapped and skinned three highly endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining refuge in western India,...	Last Hope for Vanishing White Rhinos The world's most endangered large mammal may yet be saved by human fertility methods.
South Africa Considers Elephant Cull South Africa may restart culling elephants, setting the scene for an international battle over the future of the animals....	Japan Cuts Short Whale Hunt After Fire Japan's troubled whaling fleet is on its way home after officials in Tokyo decided to end its annual hunt in the Southern...
Researchers Use Genetic Map to Track Down Source of Illegal Ivory Revolutionary technique deals blow to poachers - 20,000 elephants a year killed as prices soar	Our Nearest Evolutionary Relative, the Chimpanzee The discovery of a chimpanzee making and using a spear in Senegal is not only a surprising revelation about our nearest...
Fishermen Net Biggest-ever Colossal Squid Fishermen in New Zealand have caught the biggest-ever specimen of a colossal squid, one of the most mysterious creatures on...	New Zealand Fishermen Haul in Rare Colossal Squid Enormous squid to give scientists insight into mysterious animal's life.
Robot Twitcher to Scan Skies for Rare Bird The world's first robot twitcher has joined the hunt for the ivory-billed woodpecker. The device's inventors hope it will...	Japan Repeats Threat to Quit Whaling Body Japan today repeated its long-standing threat to leave the International Whaling Commission (IWC) unless the body shifts...
Video Captures Deep-sea Squid Hunting One of the world's largest species of squid has been filmed for the first time hunting in the wild by Japanese researchers....	Wildlife Puts Russian Games on Thin Ice Winter Olympics at Sochi fall foul of WWF - Bobsleigh run would harm bears, campaigners claim
New Zealand Government Enters Row Between Japan and Whale Protestors The New Zealand government intervened in the skirmishes between pro and anti-whalers in the Antarctic last night, warning...	Animal Lovers Win Extra Life for 400 Chinese Cats China's nascent animal rights movement claimed a rare and bloody victory today after rescuing more than 400 cats that were...
Pressure Over World Stocks Leads Japan to Cut Bluefin Tuna Quota Japan yesterday agreed to cut its quota of Atlantic bluefin tuna by almost a quarter over the next four years, in the...	Japan to Cut Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Catch By 23% Japan today agreed to cut its catch of Atlantic bluefin tuna by almost a quarter over the next four years in the latest...
Agencies Take Steps to Halt Tuna Decline Organisations responsible for the world's fast-dwindling stock of tuna today adopted a plan to arrest the decline through a...	Tuna Stocks Close to Exhaustion, Says Wwf Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless more...
Japan Warned Tuna Stocks Face Extinction Japan's huge appetite for tuna will take the most sought-after stocks to the brink of commercial extinction unless...	A Third of Fish Species Killed in Yellow River Dams, pollution and overfishing have wiped out a third of the fish species in the Yellow River, China's second longest...
Illegal Coffee Crops Threaten Endangered Animals Coffee drinkers have been unknowingly consuming a brew made from beans grown illegally in one of the world's most important...	A Rat, Insects and Litter: Delights of Mass Tourism Reach Galápagos It was only a rat, but it had no business being on the island of Santa Fe in the isolated Galápagos archipelago, where...
Japan's Black Bears 'face Extinction' Conservationists warned today that Japan's population of Asiatic black bears faces extinction following a record number of...	Captive-bred Panda Missing After Fight With Wild Rival The only giant panda to be bred in captivity and released into the wild has gone missing after being badly beaten by a...
Bush Backtracks on Global Warming With Plan to Protect Polar Bears Melting arctic ice prompts climate change concession- Campaigners hope to force cuts in carbon emissions	EU Ignores Calls for Cod Fishing Ban EU fisheries ministers today ignored the advice of scientists and environmental campaigners and rejected a total ban on cod...
EU Urged to Cut Cod Fishing Quota European ministers were facing increasing pressure to cut cod fishing in the North Sea as annual negotiations on catch...	Threatened Prehistoric Paradise Reveals Its Secrets WWF hails discovery of 52 new species in Borneo - Deforestation hits island that fascinated Darwin
Discovered, Wiped Out and Cloned: the Bizarre Life Cycle of the Saola Just over a decade ago, the saola made headlines round the world. Scientists discovered the animal in the remote Vietnamese...	Farewell to the Yangtze Dolphin The search for China's rarest dolphin has had an unhappy ending with scientists fearing it is lost forever.
Camel Sacrifice Gives Bosses the Hump Bosses at Turkey's largest airline took a dim view today of maintenance workers sacrificing a camel at Istanbul airport to...	Activists Race to Hunt Down Whalers Fierce fight expected in Southern Ocean as each side says other is criminal.
Out of the Woods: Panda Breeding Plan Saves Species The giant panda, long a symbol of the world's endangered species, is no longer threatened with extinction, according to...	Flap Over a Tale of Gay Penguins A love story about gay penguins causes controversy in a number of small towns in the American heartland.
One-dog Policy to Fight Rabies in China A dog's life will never be quite the same again in Beijing, where government population controls are to extend from the...	Many Endangered Species Stranded Outside Protected Areas, Study Finds · Challenge to 'hotspot' theory of conservation · At-risk animals more spread out than thought
RIP Pink Plastic Flamingo It seems that the plastic pink flamingo is going the way of dodo.	The Return of Whaling Iceland's decision to resume commercial whaling has made it an international pariah - and blown a 20-year moratorium on...
Japan Agrees to Cut Bluefin Tuna Catch After Admitting Overfishing Japan has agreed to nearly halve its annual catch of southern bluefin tuna after admitting that years of overfishing had...	Skin Trade Could Wipe Out India's Tigers · Pelts sold for £10,000 each on Himalayan plateau · Campaigners say illegal trade must be stopped
Banksy Ordered to Clean Up His Elephant Act The elephant may have been in the room, but by the end of its stay it had lost its sheen.	Wildlife Expert Persuades Notorious Rebel Army to Join Fight to Save Rare White Rhino A wildlife expert has told how he convinced an African rebel army, which has fought a bloody struggle with the Ugandan...
How Did the Chimp Cross the Road? The modern hazard of crossing the road has revealed an unprecedented chivalrous streak among wild chimpanzees, according to...	Freak Clash With Stingray Kills 'wildlife Warrior Bloke' Daredevil celebrity conservationist dies after fish's barb punctures chest.
Docile Stingray Rarely a Killer Of the 480 species of stingray found in the world's waters, about half grow razor-sharp spines which are often barbed or...	Sharks Pay High Price As Demand for Fins Soars Conservation group criticises EU move as world populations plunge.
Norway Fails to Fulfil Whaling Quota Norway will not be able to fulfil its whaling quota this year in what conservation groups are claiming is proof that the...	Frog Froth to Treat Wounds The Tungara frog of Trinidad is an amphibian of unusual habits. When females lay eggs in ponds, their mates build huge...
China Puts Price on Head of Rare Animals The Chinese government is inviting bids from foreign tourists for the right to hunt endangered species under a...	Tropical Fish Trade Threatens to Devastate Reefs Leading marine biologists have called for a crackdown on the trade in tropical fish, which is threatening to destroy the...
China Rabies Outbreak Triggers Second Dog Cull A Chinese city has ordered the destruction of all dogs within a three-mile radius of a rabies outbreak - the second major...	Yunnan Culls 50,000 Dogs to Purge Rabies Police and public health officials in southern China have clubbed, hanged or electrocuted almost 50,000 dogs in a week-long...
Doctors 'caught Selling Amputations to Beggars' A television sting has claimed to expose a thriving 'arms-for-alms' trade in India when journalists apparently filmed...	Claws Out Over Hemingway's Six-toed Cats A catfight has broken out in America's southernmost town over the future of some of its famous citizens - dozens of...
Cracks and Yaks Put Himalayan Railway at Risk The safety of passengers on the world's highest - and newest - railway is threatened by cracks, yaks and shifting sands,...	Yaks Threaten China's 'miracle' Train Line The safety of passengers on the world's highest - and newest - railway is threatened by cracks, yaks and shifting sands,...
Tigers on the Brink of Extinction · Study finds massive drop in key habitat areas · More protection urged to save wild populations	Vulture Numbers Are Cut to the Bone Extinction fears for a scavenger vital to preserving ecosystems.
West African Black Rhino Feared Extinct The West African black rhino appears to have become extinct, according to a leading global conservation group. Extensive...	Bruno the Bear Shot Dead For the past seven weeks he had led an idyllic existence, swimming in lakes, eating honey and killing the odd sheep. But...
Bavarian Hunters Kill Bruno the Bear Bruno, the brown bear who has spent the past seven weeks commuting between the mountains of Italy, Austria and Germany, was...	Japan Welcomes Vote Against Whaling Ban Japan was jubilant today after the International Whaling Commission voted to oppose the 1986 ban on commercial whaling, a...
Japan Welcomes Narrow Vote Against Whaling Ban Though Japan and other pro-whaling countries fell well short of the 75% of votes they needed to overturn the IWC moratorium...	Japan Suffers Setback Over Whaling Vote Japan will be confronted with evidence of the cruelty environmentalists say is inflicted during its "scientific"...
The Shadow of Slaughter Hangs Over Whales In the next 10 days, Japan's long campaign to end the hunting moratorium could pay off. As offers of aid sway poorer...	Thai Government Under Fire for Zoo Trading The first eight of 100 Thai elephants earmarked for export to Australian zoos are scheduled to leave tonight, despite...
170 Years On, Wild Bear Returns - to a Death Sentence Wild brown bears were once commonplace in the forests and mountains of Bavaria. But yesterday Germany was fascinated by the...	Alligator That Killed Jogger is Captured A four-day hunt for an alligator that killed a jogger in Florida reached a grisly climax when trappers captured the reptile...
Hunter Kills the World's Rarest Bear DNA tests of a bear, shot in the Northwest Territories of Canada, showed last week it was a hybrid of polar bear and a...	Mass Extinction Rate 'faster Than Dinosaurs' Polar bears and hippos have joined the ranks of threatened species, along with a third of amphibians and a quarter of...
Rare Black Bear Attack Kills Girl in Us Campsite A six-year-old girl was killed and her mother and two-year-old brother were in a critical condition last night after a bear...	Seal Pup Hunt Begins Despite World Protests Seal hunters and protesters gathered on the Canadian ice floes yesterday for the start of a hunt that could see the...
New York Falls for Latest Love Nest New York's best known love birds, the famous Fifth Avenue Hawks, have returned to the city after winter and come back to...	Antelope Feared Extinct is Rediscovered in Angola Of all the animals to lose, the giant sable antelope might seem be the most embarrassing.
RSPB Blames Deaths of Rare Eagles on Turbines Wind turbines have caused the death of four rare, white-tailed eagles on islands off the Norwegian coast, the Royal Society...	Satellite Data Shows Extent of Elephants' Risky Crop Raids Elephants roaming the parched plains of Africa's national parks can get up to half their food by risky midnight raids into...
The Dogs Left to Die After They 'humiliated' Their Masters Animal rights campaigners claim Spanish hunters hang, drown and poison 50,000 greyhounds every year.	Dingos Face Pet Ban After Toddler Mauled to Death Australia's native dog, the dingo, could be banned as a pet after a toddler was mauled to death by a crossbreed at her...
New Threat As Wolves Make Comeback · Protections eased after big increase in numbers · Environment groups fear backlash by ranchers.	Crocodiles Kill 13 in Zimbabwe Hunger and repression make life tough enough for most Zimbabweans, but in the rural areas the wildlife is making life...
Polar Bears Living on Thin Ice After Record Temperatures This could be the hottest year ever recorded, posing a threat to Arctic wildlife including polar bears, ice-dwelling seals...	Rare Tortoise Puts Brakes on High-speed Train Link France's last colony of a rare and protected breed of tortoise may force the route of a high-speed TGV train line to be...
On the Trail of the Borneo Cat-fox The discovery of a new mammal in the Asian rainforest was greeted with excitement. But how many other mysterious creatures...	Tokyo Gets Five-star Hotel for Pampered Pets Japanese pet owners can now embark on their foreign travels safe in the knowledge that their pampered pooches and moggies...
Cage-diving Craze Raises Fears of Increase in Shark Attacks Tourists' close encounters with great whites provoke debate in South Africa.	Chelsea Owner's Parrot to Do Bird Over Flu Fears An exotic parrot belonging to Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich will have to be caged and tested for bird flu...
Thai Zoo's Lion and Elephant Meat Banquet Angers Kenyans Kenyan conservationists reacted with anger yesterday to news that a Thai zoo to which animals are being exported in a...	Pill Blamed for Sexually Deformed Male Fish Scientists have found sexual deformities in male fish caught off the Californian coast, suggesting that gender-bending...
Drunken Elks Attack Old People's Home A drunken party of elks surrounded an old people's home in Sweden and had to be driven away by armed police, Sweden's media...	South Africa to Clamp Down on Trophy-hunting Business South Africa is to ban the hunting of animals bred in captivity or living in or near national parks after the practice...
Bison Hunters Set Sights on Easy Pickings in Yellowstone Park Cull aimed at curbing cattle disease but protesters say beasts just stand and watch.	Ocean Warming Threatens Antarctic Wildlife · Sea ice melts and glaciers shrink at accelerating rate · Decline in stocks of krill hits entire food chain
Warning: Bats Can Seriously Damage Health Scientists have discovered an unexpected but potent new threat to global health: bats.	Boy Punches Crocodile to Rescue Sister From Its Jaws A 10-year-old girl mauled by a crocodile while swimming in a lagoon says she owes her life to her teenage brother, who...
Egg Trade Undermines Battle to Save Mexican Sea Turtles Conservationists fear they may lose the battle to save Mexico's sea turtles as egg-eating remains widespread on the streets...	Legend of the Deep Captured on film for the first time in the wild, a giant squid attacks a baited long line off the coast of Japan.
Crocodile Kills Briton in Australia A four-metre saltwater crocodile is thought to have mauled and killed a British mineworker as he snorkelled off Australia's...	Briton Killed By Crocodile Police in Australia were today hunting for a crocodile believed to have killed a British mine worker as he snorkelled off a...
Wanted: Good Home for Large But Lucky Pet If you've got a spare few acres, £27,000 in loose change and want to impress the neighbours, then consider contacting...	Attack of the 800-pound Pinnipeds A small Californian harbour has been invaded by ship-sinking sea lions, writes Dan Glaister.
'Jurassic Park' Attempt to Recreate Tasmanian Tiger Exactly 69 years after the last Tasmanian tiger died in an Australian zoo, scientists are planning to use Jurassic...	Biologists Use Bird Recording to Prove a Point An ornithological dispute over the fate of a woodpecker thought to be extinct has been solved after experts produced...
Kenyan Wild Elephants Pack Their Trunks Herd of 400 to be moved after crop damage angers farmers.	US Billionaire Builds World's Biggest Aquarium Some billionaires exercise their philanthropic bent by building museums or symphony halls. The legacy of Bernard Marcus,...
How Kremlin Strove to Block Dr Zhivago The lengths to which the Soviet authorities were ready to go in their efforts to block publication of Boris Pasternak's...	Uproar Over Elephant Rescue Plan The Australian government's decision to import eight Thai elephants for a conservation project caused derision and an...
Manchester United Boss in Us Clash With Greenpeace Stocks of a small, herring-like fish that provide omega-3 essential fatty acids for supplements taken by millions of people...	Plague of Locusts Invades France In a devastating new twist to the severe drought hitting southern Europe, France is now fighting a plague of hundreds of...
Arctic Pollution Blamed on Seabirds Most of the human-made contaminants found in the pristine high Arctic were dumped there in the traditional way by breeding...	US Imposes Controls on a New Security Threat - Birdwatchers US security agents have come up with a new target for increased scrutiny in their battle against terrorism: birdwatchers....
Boy Loses Leg in New Shark Attack America was in the grip of shark fever yesterday after second attack in three days off the Florida panhandle, in which a...	Double Blow for Japan's Whalers Japan was dealt a double blow today when the International Whaling Commission rejected its proposal to abolish a whale...
Summit Opens With Setback for Pro-whaling Nations Pro-whaling countries led by Japan failed to muster a majority today that would have allowed them to set the agenda at the...	Whalers Call for Return to Commercial Hunting Britain in fight to maintain 20-year-old ban as whaling nations approach majority on international regulatory body.
How Pigs Could Be Launchpad for Bird Flu Pandemic The frustrating search to unravel the bird flu sweeping south-east Asia in the hope of estimating the likelihood of a human...	Japan Pushes for Doubling of Whale Kill Japan is likely to provoke the biggest diplomatic clash over whale hunting for years today when it proposes doubling the...
Pet Hamster Linked to Deaths of Three Organ Transplant Patients A pet hamster has been linked with the deaths of three organ transplant patients who contracted a virus commonly found in...	UK Activists a Terror Threat, Fbi Says Environmental extremists and animal rights activists, including the British-based Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty, pose one...
Discovery of New Species Bucks Extinction Trend Just as 1,300 scientists from 90 nations warn of looming extinction in the animal world, a small team of biologists has...	Angola's Symbol Lives on Angola's giant sable antelopes, which have not been seen for 31 years, have been photographed in the country's dense...
California Sends in Guns to Slaughter 3,000 Pigs - and Restore Island's Natural Habitat Over the next two years the Prohunt will devote their every waking hour to shooting pigs. The aim is to rid the island of...	Dead Species' Return Has Scientists Twitching Scientists have rediscovered one of the great birds of America, feared extinct for 60 years - a find hailed by scientists...
Scientists Call for Urgent Action to Save Atlantic Tuna Scientists warn today that the Atlantic bluefin tuna faces extinction unless urgent action is taken.	Action Plan to Save Home of New Species From Loggers At least 361 new species discovered in Borneo in the last decade, along with thousands more probably waiting to be...
Barbary Apes Out of Africa DNA analysis today reveals that Europe's only free-ranging monkeys are all descended from two ancient populations from the...	Elephants Stampede in Seoul Seoul has long had a reputation as one of Asia's wildest concrete jungles, but even residents who thought they had seen...
How a White Feather Can Outfox a Falcon When aerial menace zooms in from behind, the feral pigeon does what a dove's got to do - it shows the white feather and...	Scientists Clone Champion Racehorse Scientists have cloned a champion racehorse for the first time. The foal, born in February, is the world's first stallion...
Amazon Gives Up Deepest Secrets New species are being found in record numbers in the river. Now TV viewers have a chance to name one of them.	Indian Reserve Emptied of Tigers An entire population of tigers has vanished from a forest sanctuary in the Indian state of Rajasthan because of poaching, a...
320,000 Will Die in Canada's Biggest Seal Cull for More Than 50 Years Skin trade fuels government's quota increase. It was carnage on a scale the frozen ice floes of Newfoundland have not seen...	Cull of 300,000 Baby Seals Begins Thousands of commercial hunters armed with clubs, rifles and spears moved on to the ice floes off eastern Canada today to...
Pandas at Risk in Bamboo Crisis Hundreds of giant pandas in western China could die from starvation because the bamboo plants they eat have begun to flower...	Detectives Drafted in to Solve Mystery of the Vanishing Tigers Staff at the Sariska Tiger Reserve initially preferred not to publicise the fact that its tiger population had gone...
Females Flown in to P-p-p-pick Up 'gay' Penguins They are called Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point. The four female penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany...	Zoo's 'gay' Penguins Give Females the Bird They are called Charley, Left-Arrow, Diagonal-Line and Six-Point. The four female penguins at Bremerhaven Zoo in Germany...
Lizards Banish Rats From Rat Island They have been our unwelcome companions for centuries, bringing disease, plague and pestilence in their wake. But...	Greens Ready to Block Crater Study Yucatan sea study raises fear for dolphins' hearing. A study of the crater left by the meteorite which many believe caused...
French Tackle Oyster Thieves Days before France's mammoth annual shellfish fest, gangs of marauding oyster-snatchers are forcing growers in Brittany and...	The World's First Cloned Pet (cost $50,000) A cat lover in Texas has become the world's first owner of a cloned-to-order feline, paying $50,000 for a genetic duplicate...
Thai Police Halt Orang-utans' Boxing Bouts The boxing ring and spectator stands at Safari World zoo on the outskirts of Bangkok lie eerily neglected, as if they have...	Houdini the Hippo Back in Captivity It took 10 months, a helicopter, six tranquilliser darts and a night-time chase through reed beds, but Houdini the hippo...
Hunters Leave Bonobo on Brink of Extinction The ape considered to be man's closest relative could be on the brink of extinction, researchers warned today.	Back From the Dead, the Mountain Mouse Not Seen for 40 Years It was last seen 42 years ago and was believed to be extinct. But the Bavarian short-eared mouse - a unique species of...
Grisly Find Casts Doubt on Peaceful Pyramid Theory Evidence of human sacrifice discovered in ancient city. The ancient city-state of Teotihuacan was long thought a relatively...	War Leaves Chimps Open to Slaughter in Last Refuge Conservationists warn that Congo's great apes, including its chimpanzees, face extinction because of logging and hunting.
Mallorcan midwife toad saved from extinction One of the world's strangest animals, the Mallorcan midwife toad, has been rescued from the brink of extinction. The...	Dolphins Save Swimmers From Shark It emerged yesterday that four swimmers were saved from a great white shark by a pod of altruistic dolphins, who swam in...
Five Deerhunters Killed in Shootout A deerhunter went on a rampage in north-western Wisconsin, shooting dead five people and wounding three others, apparently...	The Biggest Fishing Trip of All Time: $1bn Survey Unravels Mysteries of the Deep 'Information seaway' seeks to identify thousands of new species A billion-dollar survey of the world's oceans has so far...
Cape Town Considers Shark Hunt After Swimmer is Killed The authorities in South Africa were considering last night whether to launch a hunt for the great white shark that killed...	Mexico Falls Back in Love With the Donkey Once they were a ubiquitous symbol of old-time Mexico. But now, in the animal world's equivalent of coals to Newcastle, the...
Indigenous Hunt to Be Curbed Island communities in Australia's tropical north are to be given quotas for hunting endangered sea cows, or dugong -...	New Trick to Keep Old Dogs Looking Good To American pet-owners they are a dog's best friend. But yesterday British animal welfare groups warned that canine...
Dying Lake Threatens Flamingos One of the great spectacles of Africa - the vast flocks of flamingos feeding at Lake Nakuru in Kenya - is under threat...	Great Apes Face Extinction In the past decade the number of eastern lowland gorillas has plunged from 17,000 to 5,000, according to Conservation...
Interview: Ros Coward Meets Jane Goodall She has devoted her career to saving primates. Now scientist and campaigner Jane Goodall is 70 and embroiled in the...	Fears for Rhino As Hunters Are Allowed to Kill Again Big game hunters can return to Africa to shoot the black rhino after a 20-year worldwide ban on trade in the animals was...
Locusts Continue Relentless Advance Some wore buckets on their heads, others swung sticks, and those who could sheltered indoors, praying for an end to the...	Lobbyist Accuses Wildlife Group in Summit Row One of the world's largest animal welfare groups was last night accused of trying to unduly influence a world meeting on...
France Defies Eu to Continue Force-feeding Birds for Foie Gras The French agriculture ministry has infuriated animal welfare organisations by defending that bastion of Gallic culinary...	Italy Hit By Plague of Locusts Tourist spots in Italy are being invaded by plagues of locusts. The town of Matera in the south of the country, which was...
Italy Battles to Save the Last of Its Wild Bears Conservationists are examining the initial results of an emergency programme to save central Italy's last few bears from...	Cloning Breeds Hope for India's Big Cats Scientists' $1m plan to save Asiatic lions and return cheetahs to the wild. Indian scientists have announced ambitious...
It Can't Fly and Sounds Like a Trumpet, But New Bird Delights Ornithologists The mystery bird was certainly distinctive: dark brown, red bill, red legs, call like a trumpet, pretty hopeless at flying....	60-mile Ant Colony Hits Melbourne Melbourne is under threat from an invader straight out of a horror film: a giant column of ants 60 miles across. The...
Bird Flu Triggers Cape Ostrich Cull South Africa will today begin culling some 30,000 ostriches to control an outbreak of avian flu in the Eastern Cape. Police...	'Dead Zones' Are Blamed for Rise in Shark Attacks Increasing numbers of unprovoked shark attacks on swimmers could be linked to the formation of immense oxygen-starved dead...
Limited Cull of Wolves Ordered to Save Sheep For the first time since they were hunted to the verge of extinction in the early years of the last century, grey wolves...	'Oldest' Dog Heads for 27th Birthday An Australian mongrel fed on kangaroo and emu could be the oldest dog in the world. A vet in the outback town of Wilcannia...
Culprits Hunted After Death of Australian Surfer A surfer has been killed by sharks off the coast of Western Australia, sparking a hunt for the animals suspected of mauling...	Lawsuit Over 'mistreated' Animals in French Reality Show The company that supplied the animals for Celebrity Farm, France's most popular reality TV show, is suing the producers...
Croc Peril the Price of Peace The success achieved by Australia in quelling unrest in the Solomon Islands, by means of the surrender of firearms through...	Donkey's Years Began in Africa European scientists report that a study of donkey DNA shows all members of the modern Equus asinus probably descended from...
Eats Shoots and Thrives A new study has shown that China's panda population may be on the increase, writes Sarah Left.	Havens of Newly Found Marine Life Under Threat Deep sea trawling poses risk to coral reef dwellers and prompts campaign for fishing ban to facilitate research.
Austria Outlaws Battery Chickens Austria banned battery chicken farming yesterday in an animals rights act which also bars wild animals from circuses,...	Punch Saves Boy From Alligator in Florida A 12-year-old boy who was attacked by an alligator in Florida escaped after he punched the reptile and swam to shore....
On the Trail of the Last Black Rhino London conference briefed on endangered species. The tale of how Rwanda's last black rhinoceros was tracked down after...	How Giant Fence Could Save Apes Throwing a huge fence round the Virunga mountains in Africa that would straddle the borders of three countries might be the...
Coral Pays the Price for Subsistence Fishing Idyllic scenes of Pacific islanders using traditional spears to fish from coral reefs disguise "disastrous...	MEPs Told Iberian Lynx on Verge of Extinction The Iberian lynx, the metre-long cat that lives only in Spain and Portugal, is on the verge of extinction, says a report to...
Russian City Wages War on Rats Russia's cultural capital, St Petersburg, has warned its residents not to approach any slow-moving, woozy rats over the...	Apeing the Gender Gap Young Female Chimps Outsmart Males Chimpanzees have demonstrated yet another close similarity to their human cousins. Young female chimps learn skills earlier...
Seal Hunt Goes On, Despite Protests The largest seal hunt in almost 50 years continues today on the ice floes and islands off eastern Canada as a picture in...	Outrage at new mass slaughter of baby seals Soon after dawn breaks above Newfoundland tomorrow, the ice sheets will be suffused with crimson as an army of hunters...
Hollywood Tries to Save Tasmanian Devil Hollywood hopes to help prevent the demise of the Tasmanian devil, a carnivorous marsupial whose animated namesake has...	Alleged Rabbit Thief, 9, Seized A nine-year-old girl was arrested, handcuffed and questioned at a Florida police station on Tuesday after she was accused...
Found: Peter the Publicity-shy Penguin An African penguin which vanished four years ago after becoming a wildlife celebrity for surviving an oil spill has been...	Airlift for Stray Dogs in Olympic Race Against Time Activists have launched a mass evacuation campaign, transporting the strays by plane, train, truck and bus to new homes...
Fears for Great Ape As Numbers Fall By 70% In 10 years, the world population of eastern lowland gorillas has fallen by 70%, researchers said yesterday. In 1994, there...	Sewerage and Fertilisers 'are Killing the Seas' Marine life is being suffocated, UN warns. Last summer every sea creature across an area twice the size of Wales was...
Booming Elephant Herd to Pack Their Trunks Kenya's elephant population, once headed for extinction, is growing so robustly that the authorities are planning their...	King's Bison Shoot Stirs Anger of Conservation Groups The wild European bison was last night at the centre of a diplomatic row after the king of Spain shot one during a trip to...
Sumatran Tigers Face Their Last Days on Earth Experts see a last glimmer of hope, if conservation and protection are stepped up. The Sumatran tiger will disappear in a...	Extinction Threat to More Than 1,000 Bird Species More than 1,000 bird species face extinction because of an alarming and accelerating loss of biodiversity, a study warns...
Lifeline Thrown to Species at Risk 120 states agree to increased protection, but cash is needed. Thousands of endangered species should be saved from...	10 Tails That Wag the Modern Dog Tim Radford in Seattle learns how Fido sprang from a wolf. Within five years researchers will have completed the...

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